Quinton

I'm economist, thaumaturge, architect, contrarian, alchemist, might pass for human, all your security are belong to us, @firetruck.bsky.social

[Quinton @415]

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[Quinton @415]

I like graphs.

[Raffael Marty @raffaelmarty]

Always at the edge of innovation! This is quite the game changer. Dealing with #graphs? Check this out !

[Petr Baudis @xpasky]

> be me, buy a minipc sporting a shiny rgb stripe
> can i turn it off?
> found a windows binary blob that can control it, welp
> download the zip and fire up pi
> gpt-5.4: "reverse engineer LedControl_S3A_F3A.exe, i'd like to control the LEDs from Linux" (that's the full prompt)
> 10 minutes of `objdump -d` later: "Yes — I dug into it."
> i can now control my rgb stripe from linux
> what.

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.” - Jesse Jackson

May he rest in peace.

[Quinton @415]

@Cannibal

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To all the athletes representing @TeamUSA: I'm so proud of you. Your talent and perseverance have brought you to this moment, and Michelle and I will be joining Americans from across the country cheering you on.

[Ushi @ush1c]

I’m insanely excited about this!🥳

CFP and Sponsorship is open.

#HackerHackHausCon

[Quinton @415]

I know other parts of the country also have snow blowers but um... I'm not sure if they are the same as the ones we have in New Hampshire.

::shruggie

[Jenny G. Rankin, PhD @JennyGRankin]

#WiseWords: "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."—Jane Goodall

[MrBill // wardrive every day // @SecureThisNow]

Underrated SAO from @defcon 33 from ANYK3Y AND BREDBORED .
"Screaming in the void" makes the flames redder 🤣
The flames flicker too!

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Chuck Norris doing a Chuck Norris joke is peak internet.

[Quinton @415]

Don't forget to leave cookies out for Snoop Dogg

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Last week I hosted family for Thanksgiving.

My 12-year-old nephew asked for the WiFi password.

He wanted to play Roblox on his iPad.

I looked at the device.

Unmanaged. No antivirus. No encryption.

I’m an IT Professional. I don't run an open network.

So I didn’t give him the password.

Instead, I spent 45 minutes provisioning a Guest VLAN.

I set up a captive portal.

I throttled the bandwidth down to 56kbps.

Then I blocked all traffic on ports 80 and 443.

He came back crying. He said it wouldn't load.

My sister screamed at me to "just let him play."

I told her that Zero Trust architecture doesn't care about bloodlines.

We didn't have a "fun" Thanksgiving.

But we had a secure perimeter.

You’re welcome for the compliance.

[sudox @kmcnam1]

With the increase in RAM prices, this is how you impress the ladies...

[Quinton @415]

@BentleyAudrey I am not sure if your local chapter of mensa has an online classifieds section, but also you could just hang out on https://t.co/vtz7rlWBiV long enough that it sort of becomes that. For you...

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[Quinton @415]

@TracketPacer

[Quinton @415]

I ran a 26.2 mile foot race Sunday.

https://t.co/dUkRfAettQ

Got to run alongside an active duty USAF young man hauling an American flag for a mile.

Many veterans from New Hampshire were commemorated, including on the race bib itself.

[Quinton @415]

Happy Veterans Day. Thank you to those who served. Thank you to the families of those who served.